Staff Software Engineer

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce.   We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people.   While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.     

The Opportunity: 

We are looking for a versatile, curious, and experienced Staff Software Engineer to join the Visa Acceptance Platform - Integration team, a cross-functional engineering group within the broader Acceptance Solutions Technology organization. This team is responsible for building and scaling our global notification infrastructure, including webhook delivery, email and SMS delivery systems, subscription management tools, and developer-facing integration capabilities.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will help deliver frictionless, scalable solutions that empower partners and the developer community to build and innovate on the Visa Acceptance Platform. You will lead the design and development of event-driven, fault-tolerant systems that support billions of transactions and enable real-time communication across Visa’s ecosystem. Your work will directly impact platform reliability, developer experience, and partner autonomy, with opportunities to influence architecture, mentor engineers, and shape the future of Visa’s integration strategy.

The Work itself: 

• Design, build, and evolve systems that touch 40% of the world’s population while influencing Visa’s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability.
• Improve and modernize existing platforms to meet increasing performance, reliability, and integration demands across Visa’s global ecosystem.
• Architect and deliver robust, event-driven systems that power Visa’s notification infrastructure, including webhook delivery, email and SMS delivery systems, and subscription management tools.
• Ensure platform resilience through fault-tolerant design, observability-first engineering, and delivery guarantees with zero message loss.
• Champion secure-by-design practices, aligning with Visa’s rigorous internal security standards and external regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate across functions to develop best-in-class software solutions for Visa’s global technical offerings.
• Contribute to global readiness, including localized, branded, and compliant messaging experiences across diverse markets.
• Incorporate release management best practices including multi-region deployments, feature toggles, progressive delivery, and rollback prevention to minimize client impact.
• Mentor engineers and foster a culture of ownership, inclusion, and continuous learning across hybrid, cross-regional teams.

Essential Functions:

• Demonstrate deep technical expertise in backend development, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures to support scalable, secure, and resilient platform capabilities.
• Identify and implement scalable APIs and services that enable real-time partner integrations and developer self-service.
• Apply secure-by-design principles to ensure systems meet Visa’s internal security standards and external regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, TPMs, solution engineers, and SREs, to deliver integration solutions aligned with business goals.
• Integrate AI-powered tools and workflows into the product development lifecycle to enhance developer experience, automation, and operational efficiency.
• Apply observability-first engineering practices to ensure fault tolerance, high availability, and zero message loss across globally distributed services.
• Contribute to technical design documents, architecture reviews, and platform-wide standards for extensibility, security, and developer experience.
• Identify and address technical debt, proposi